tien.
/tʌɪ/, U.S. /taɪ/ 1. That with which anything is tied; a cord, band, or the like, used for fastening something; a knot, noose, or ligature; a natural formation of this kind, a ligament (quot. 1659 at β. ); esp. an ornamental knot or bow of ribbon, etc.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > tie
tieOE
bonda1325
tying1548
tial1549
tier1844
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > knot, bow, or rosette
bow1547
roset1675
bob1761
rosette1776
dogvane1778
tie1837
α.
β. 1601–2 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 141 ij tigges for the maydes to mylke the kyne with, ijd.1602 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 142 To a power man for vj tighes for the kyne, iiijd.1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 406 Intercept an arterie with a tye, and the part below the tye..will not beate.1659 W. S. Macollo's XCIX Canons in Physick 54 The tyes and ligaments of the brain.1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 60 The horse..broke his tie, and gallopped off.1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlviii. 523 Great formal wigs with a tie behind.1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iii. 63 Putting impossible buttons and ties in the middle of his back.OE Cynewulf Crist II 733 He hellwarena heap forbygde in cwicsusle, cyning inne gebond feonda foresprecan, fyrnum teagum.
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 210/36 Collarium, sweorclaþ, uel teg, uel sal.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10477 Heo wolden..teien [c1300 Otho tiȝe] heom to-gadere mid guldene teȝen.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 308/301 A teiȝ doggue þat is in strongue teiȝe.
1537 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 335 Thre elnis canves to lyne the teis of the mulatis.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Tee, or Tie, a hair-rope with which to shackle cows in milking.
2. Nautical.
a. A rope or chain by which a yard is suspended. See quot. 1841 at β. .
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope or chain by which yard is suspended
uptie1295
tie1465
tie-ropec1525
slinga1625
top-chain1698
tee1882
α.
β. 1485–6 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 13 An hauser for a tye weying D lb.1485–6 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 36 Halfe tyes short..ij. Bowe Sesynges.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Estails,..tyes; the strings or ropes of sayles.1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 21 The Ties are the ropes by which the yards doe hang, and doe carry vp the yards when wee straine the Halyards.1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 24 While some above the yard, o'er-haul the tye.1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. iv. 127 I..regained my perch by the topsail-tie.1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. Tye, a rope connected with a yard, to the other end of which a tackle is attached for hoisting.1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 200 For ij. teyis [for the ship] weyinge vij. stone,..xiij.s. ix.d.
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 300 Making of a bonat and the lek [leech] to it, with smal takil and a tee.
1511 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 300 Item..for hed towis to the gret schip..tua cordalis, x trosis, iij teis.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xiv. 6 Than all sammyn,..Did heis thar saill, and trossit doun ther teis.
b. A mooring-bridle.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel > bridle
bridle1626
bridle cable1791
tie1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Ties, an old name for mooring bridles.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 24 White Manilla Boat Tie.
3. A knot of hair; a pigtail; also short for tie-wig n. ? Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > tresses or plaits
tracec1380
plight?1387
tressa1400
plexc1450
braid1530
tuck1532
buoy-rope1546
trammels1589
entrammelling1598
border1601
point1604
pleat?1606
trammelets1654
maze1657
brede1696
queue1724
pigtail?1725
tie1725
cue1731
tuck-up1749
tutulus1753
club1786
tail1799
French twist1850
Grecian plait1851
French plait1871
horse's tail1873
Gretchen braid, plait1890
shimada1910
ponytail1916
French braid1937
cane row1939
dreadlocks1960
French pleat1964
Tom Jones1964
corn row1971
dread1984
club-pigtail-
1725 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire II 14 The well-swoln tyes an equal homage claim.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. x. 64 So I think, cries the other; and tosses his Tye behind him with an Air..of Contempt.
1760 S. Foote Minor ii. 71 Some recommended a tye, others a bag; one mentioned a bob.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. xxxiii. 144 Cythna's glowing arms, and the thick ties Of her soft hair.
4.
a. A neck-tie, a cravat, a bow-tie. In modern use the tie or neck-tie is usually distinguished from the cravat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neck-tie or cravat
overlayera1547
overlayc1590
tie1763
1763 C. Churchill Rosciad in Poems I. 5 Thrice he twirl'd his Tye—thrice strok'd his band.
1860 H. B. Tristram Great Sahara xx. 344 Seated in white gloves and ties at the soirée of Madame R——.
1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ i. 6 Here..That badge of servitude, the white tie, is unloosed.
1895 ‘F. Anstey’ Lyre & Lancet i. 7 He'll come down to dinner in a flannel shirt and no tie.
1897 H. Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson II. 222 Adorned by his accustomed blue tie.
b. A lady's ornamental necklet or scarf.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > scarf or wrap > other
orhni1678
cravat1828
tie1860
feather boa1895
1860 C. M. Yonge Hopes & Fears I. ii. iii. 204 Ladies affected coats and waistcoats..both cousins..wearing..black ties round the neck.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 79/2 White Hemstitch Lawn Ties, embroidered ends. (Size 4¼ × 44 inch.)
1919 Queen 4 Oct. 5 A..Mink Tie beautifully worked in three strands.
1930 Daily Tel. 8 Apr. 9/5 Wherever fashionable women may meet this Easter most assuredly will you mark the popularity of the Fur Tie.
1973 Country Life 22 Nov. (Suppl.) 721 Important auction sale... Mink & Astrakhan fur coats and ties.
5. A kind of low shoe fastened with a tie or lace.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with laces
tie1826
Oxford1843
Oxford shoe1843
pampootie1846
low quarter1878
brogue shoe1906
ghillie1932
1826 Mrs. McNeill Let. in Mem. Sir J. McNeill (1910) vi Two pair black satin slippers,..two pair neat walking ties.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 15 Apr. 10/2 What we call Oxford Ties, which is a brogue shoe, is a favourite form..for walking purposes.
6.
a. gen. Something that connects or unites two or more things in some way; a link. (See also 8.)
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which connects or bond
bridgeOE
chain1377
bond1382
connex1490
link1548
conjunction1570
solder1599
claspa1674
vinculum1678
tie1711
concatenation1726
umbilical cord1753
thread1818
colligation1850
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > fact or action of being linked or linking > one who or that which > a connecting link
link1548
copulative1615
root1632
copula1656
nexus1663
juncturea1676
tie1711
connecting link1797
interlinka1834
hyphen1868
1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 152 Called the Subjunctive Mood, because it is subjoin'd or added to the first Sentence by some Cople or Tye.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. ii. vii. 193 Solid substance[s]..retained by a force or united by a tie.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (1862) III. 52 The tie between the two typical groups being..the dibasic radicle (C2O2).
b. Music. A curved line placed over or under two notes on the same degree, to indicate that the sound is to be sustained (not repeated): = bind n. 1c: cf. ligature n. 4.Also placed over or under two or more notes to be performed legato, or to be sung to one syllable; in this case now called a slur (slur n.3 4).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > slur or tie
ligature1597
tie1656
binding-note1782
slur1786
bind1880
phrasing slur1898
1656 M. Locke Little Consort: Treble Pref. In printing of Tyes, Holds, Slurrs.
1658 J. Playford Breif Introd. Skill Musick (new ed.) 40 This Tye or Hold when it is put over the head of two Notes, both upon one Line, or one space, it is, that They must be Sung or Play'd in one Sound. If the Tyes or Holds be put over Passing Notes..They shew that so many Notes are Sung to one syllable of a word. If such Ties be in Lessons for the Viol,..they shew that so many as are so tyed are to be stroke with once Drawing the Bow.
1686 New Method to learn to Sing 54 A Tye thus ?, over two or more Notes, signifying that they must be sung to one Syllable, or struck with one motion of the Bow upon an Instrument.
1848 E. F. Rimbault First Bk. Pianoforte 63 The chief marks of expression are the Slur, the Tie, and the Dash or Point.
c. The locking together of dog and bitch during copulation.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > mating
lining1611
tie1951
1951 E. F. Daglish Dog Breeder's Man. xi. 102 Penetration by the dog is usually followed by the ‘tie’..usually considered evidence of a successful union.
1969 M. Roslin-Williams Dual-purpose Labrador iv. 52 When the mating is effective and normal, the ‘tie’ will be so strong that the dog can be turned carefully round.
7.
a. Architecture, etc. A beam or rod used to ‘tie’ or bind together two parts of a building or other structure by counteracting a tensile strain which tends to draw them apart.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > beams or supports
sillc897
sole-tree1527
spur1529
brace1530
rance1574
strut1587
ground pin1632
ground-plate1663
strut-beam1668
wale-piece1739
strutting-beam1753
wale1754
stretcher1774
tie1793
tie-beam1823
strutting1833
lattice frame1838
tie-bolt1838
tie rod1839
brace-rod1844
web1845
box girder1849
plate girder1849
lattice beam1850
lattice girder1852
girder1853
twister1875
under-girder1875
truss-beam1877
raker1880
wind-bracing1890
portal strut1894
stirrup1909
knee-brace1912
tee-beam1930
tee section1963
binder-
1793 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 340 The ties, in this case, are large oak floor-beams.
1855 Act 18 & 19 Victoria c. 122 Sched. i The height of every topmost story shall be measured from the level of its floor up to the underside of the tie of the roof.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 183 The eight ribs were firmly connected together by braces and ties.
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding i. 8 Some of the longitudinal ties of this ship were broken at the bulkheads.
b. U.S. A (transverse) railway sleeper.The transverse or ‘cross’ sleepers serve as ties to keep the rails from spreading under the lateral strain of the wheels.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails > sleeper
cross-tie1813
sleeper1837
longitudinal1838
transom1838
cross-sleeper1841
railroad tie1847
stringer1848
tie1857
pot sleeper1869
waybeam1880
1857 U.S. Patent Office Rep. II. 116 The tie and pedestals cast in one piece, the chairs so constructed as to fit in or on said pedestals.
1869 Daily News 7 Oct. Fires..fed by piles of old sleepers, or ties as they are called here.
1881 Times 9 Sept. Heaps of ‘ties’ (the sleepers of the old world) piled up by the side of the road.
1891 Railroad Gaz. (U.S.) The requirements for ties comprise the largest consumption of wood in this country.
8. figurative. Something that ties or binds in a figurative or abstract sense.
a. Something that makes fast or secures; a security; something figured as a band or knot with which things are tied. rare.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > tie > in abstract sense
tie1563
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1313/1 They haue charitie in such sure tie that they cannot lose it.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 17 Let your Highnesse Command vpon me, to the which my duties Are with a most indissoluble tye For euer knit. View more context for this quotation
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. x. 531 He had concluded the Marriage.., a match that was to be the main tye of this Accommodation.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 56 Confusedly bound in memory's ties.
b. Something that restrains or obliges; a restraint, constraint; †something that enables one to restrain another, a hold upon a person (obsolete); an obligation, a bond (of duty or the like).
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society > authority > control > [noun] > means of control > a hold upon
holda1400
tie1619
roota1715
purchase1790
nose-hold1797
twist1880
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > [noun] > bond of duty
benda1250
banda1400
knota1500
tie1619
tial1623
confinement1656
1619 M. Drayton Legend Pierce Gaueston in Poems (new ed.) 355 Which soone vpon Him got so sure a Tye, As no misfortune e'r could it remoue.
1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 45 The agents complained that they wanted a ty uppon the sylkemen. The bonde was advysed by others.
1641 Ld. J. Digby Speech in Comm. 21 Apr. 6 I was..under tye of Secrecy.
1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. xiii. 359 Bound..by..the Ties of Moral Duty.
1768 Woman of Honor III. 59 Love..flies with disdain from everything that has an air of tie, or constraint.
1835 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1837) I. xv. 229 They do not like the tie of religion.
c. Something that connects or unites; a bond of union; a uniting principle; a link, connection: usually with implication of mutual obligation (cf. 8b), in reference to social relations or the like.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which connects or bond > a bond or tie between persons, etc.
ligament1426
ligation1598
ligature1627
tie1629
necessitya1639
attachment1930
1629 L. Carlell Deserving Favourite i. sig. B2 To procure her bondage; For such she did account all ties of marriage Made by the parents without the childs consent.
1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother iv. i. sig. G4v Mercy becomes a Prince, and guards him best, Awe and affrights are never tyes of Love.
1733 P. Shaw tr. F. Bacon De Sapientia Veterum iii, in Philos. Wks. I. 591 The Bonds of Affinity, which are the Links and Ties of Nature.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) III. I. 149 We are bound to each other by the ties of honour and interest.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §1. 1 The ties of a common blood, and a common speech.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. 271 There is no necessary tie between race and language.
d. Obligation of constant attendance; restraint of freedom.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [noun] > that which
fetterOE
shackle?c1225
cagec1300
chainc1374
to cut a large thong of another man's leatherc1380
corda1382
gablea1555
obligation1582
hamper1613
tethera1628
girdlea1630
confiner1654
trammela1657
cramp1719
swathe1864
tie1868
lockstep1963
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > of free action > that which
fetterOE
shackle?c1225
cagec1300
chainc1374
to cut a large thong of another man's leatherc1380
corda1382
gablea1555
obligation1582
manacle1587
hamper1613
tethera1628
girdlea1630
confiner1654
trammela1657
cramp1719
swathe1864
tie1868
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. 534 T' au'd lady's a gret age. She'll be a desper't tie on em.
a1912 Mod. She finds the children a great tie on her. The place is easy, but you wouldn't like the tie.
1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xix. 343 Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest—it is good.
1960 R. Collier House called Memory iii. 45 We'd love to do an evening show sometimes but the children are such a tie.
e. to ride in tie: perversion of to ride and tie at ride v. Phrases 2d, tie being apparently taken in sense ‘connection’.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride with two on one horse
to ride double1599
to ride in tie1908
1870 G. T. Curtis Life D. Webster I. 37 As Mr Webster once humorously expressed their frequent interchange of study and labour for their joint support, as they had but one horse between them, they ‘rode in tie’.
1908 Academy 8 Feb. 434/2 He rode all the way in tie with his black slave.
f. Logic. Something that unites the elements of a linguistic construct, e.g. the verb ‘to be’.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > propositional function > other elements or qualities
symmetry1888
indefinability1903
tie1918
1918 W. E. Johnson in Mind XXVII. 14 In order to understand the verbal juxtaposition of substantive and adjective, we must recognise a latent element of form in this construct... This element of form constitutes what I shall call the characterising tie.
1921 W. E. Johnson Logic I. i. 10 The general term ‘tie’ is used to denote what..is involved in understanding the specific form of unity that gives significance to the construct.
1923 C. D. Broad Sci. Thought ii. 75 Take first a very simple characterising judgment, lie ‘3 is a prime.’.. We might say that the first judgment is about the number 3 and the characteristic of primeness, and asserts that they are connected by the characterising tie.
1959 P. F. Strawson Individuals v. 168 To the characterizing tie between Socrates and the universal, dying, there corresponds the attributive tie between Socrates and the particular, his death.
9.
a. The fact or method of tying; the condition of being tied, bound, or united. (In quot. 1865 ? a bargain settled, a sale.)
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > [noun] > binding with a cord, string, or tying > condition of being tied
tie1718
1718 Free-thinker No. 66. 2 I understand the decent Tye of a Cravat.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §82 The tye was as good at the bottom as at the top.
1865 Daily Tel. 22 Aug. 6/5 The market expenses..are little enough: 2d a head toll, and 11/ 2d ‘a tie’, as the phrase is—31/ 2d, that is, per beast sold in the market.
b. Mining. = tee n.1 3.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > vein > join or intersection
pee?1644
tee1653
tie1747
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Oiij He that comes first to the Pee, will take it, be he the older or younger, and he will make the other a way out if possible he can, otherwise if he cannot then it is called a Tye.
1851 T. Tapping Gloss. in Chron. Customs Lead Mines Tee, or Tye, is where a cross vein approaches another vein at nearly right angles, whose side it joins without intersecting or breaking through it.
c. In silk hand-loom weaving: The tying together of a combination of heddle-strings, so as to move a series of warp-strings together.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > method of > weaving other types of fabric
tie1831
twill1839
pile-weaving1863
twilling1880
snowflake1882
leno1968
1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 297 Every variation in the order of succession of the harness used in weaving or in the weavers' language, every different tie, produces a different pattern.
d. In plastering: = key n.1 15.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > bricklaying and plastering > plastering > rough surface to give better hold
key1813
tie1873
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 121/2 After the coat is laid on, it is scored in diagonal directions with a scratcher..to give it a key or tie for the coat that is to follow it.
10.
a. Equality between two or more competitors or the sides in a match or contest; a match in which this occurs, a drawn match; a dead heat. Hence, to play off a tie, to shoot off a tie, etc., to resolve or determine a tie, by playing another match.ⓘIn cricket used specifically to denote a match in which the scores are level after both teams have completed their innings, as opposed to a draw in which the scheduled playing time elapses without either team having won (see draw n. 19b). In other sporting contexts draw is now the more usual term in British, Irish, Australian, and New Zealand English for a match which finishes with the scores level.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > draw or tie
tie1680
patt1735
love1742
tie game1742
game and game1745
draw1823
standoff1842
split1967
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > rivalry or vying > equality between sides
tie1680
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition > viewed in terms of equality of parties > equality in a contest
tie1736
level pegging1927
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xv. 93 If each win a trick and the third tyed, neither win, because it is trick and tye.
1736 London Evening-post 2 Sept. The great Match at Single Wicket... The Country got but six,..which made it a Tye.
1837 T. Hook Jack Brag I. iii. 73 To see the ties shot off of the great pigeon match.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. viii. iii. 206 The Government count on the seat, though with the new Registration 'tis nearly a tie.
1881 T. Hardy Laodicean II. ii. vi. 24 We are bracketed—it's a tie. The judges say there is no choice between the designs.
b. Hence: a deciding match played after a draw; also, a match played between the victors in previous matches or heats. (See also cup-tie n. at cup n. Compounds 3b.)
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > game or definite spell of play > specific one of series
heata1663
rubber game1793
round1837
rubber match1843
tie-match1864
final1880
postseason1882
semi-final1884
preliminary1886
cup-tie1895
play-off1895
tie1895
leg1899
repechage1899
qualifier1908
quarter-final1916
playdown1918
rounder1918
go-around1933
quick death1938
semi1942
pretrial1946
quarter1950
barrage1955
tie-breaker1961
semi-main1968
tie-break1970
breaker1979
1895 Westm. Gaz. 24 Sept. The..boys prefer the cup ties to the Church Catechism.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 12/1 There is something impressive even to the unathletic man in these annual Cup-tie figures.
1905 Daily Chron. 17 Apr. 3/7 Probably the Cup-‘tie’ has been evolved from the phrase ‘shooting off’ or ‘playing off a tie’ after two competitors have ‘tied’. The match between those who stand on a level gradually gets regarded as itself the ‘tie’.
Draft additions 1993
e. spec. A binding contract whereby the licensee of an inn or public house is obliged to purchase liquor from a particular brewing firm. See tied adj.1 2b.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > contract between tavern and brewery
tie1909
1909 19th Cent. June 996 A ‘tie’ extending to wines and spirits, &c., is not uncommon in various parts of the country.
1968 Beer & Cider (‘Know the Drink’ Ser.) 37/1 The tenant pays a low, sometimes nominal, rent, and in return agrees to buy the owner's beers... This agreement is the tie that gives rise to the name ‘tied house’.
1989 Times 22 Mar. 27/7 The report into the tie..is riddled with the inconsistencies which still dominate [brewery] merger policy in this country.
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tiev.
/tʌɪ/, U.S. /taɪ/α. Old English tígan, Middle English tiȝen, Middle English tyen, Middle English tyȝe, Middle English–1800s tye, Middle English– tie, Middle English– tying (present participle), 1500s–1600s ty. c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xliv. 258 Hu þes dæl tigð þa word togædere. c1000Tigan [see sense 1a]. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 20997 And tiȝe heom to-gædere.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. i. 96 And taken transgressores and tyen hem faste.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iii. 139 And tieth hym faste.1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia v. f. 138 He aduised him to tie the letter to the thong of a Iaueling, & so to throw it into his camp.1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxii. 92 To ty on tre.1618 W. Raleigh in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) 38 Tyenge them back to backe.1729 G. Adams tr. Sophocles Antigone ii. iv, in tr. Sophocles Trag. II. 32 If Fear did not tye their Tongues.
β. Middle English teȝen, Middle English tegh, Middle English teien, Middle English teiȝen, Middle English tey, Middle English teyyn, Middle English–1500s teie, Middle English–1500s teye, 1500s–1600s taye, 1600s tay, 1800s tee (dialect). c1250 Hymn Virg. 59 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 257 Herre teȝen he him nolde.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10477 And teien [c1300 Otho tiȝe] heom to-gadere.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11187 Many fair palfray & stede..to wype, & to mangers teye.1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 94 And teiȝen hem faste. ▸ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 79 Reynes..to teie wiþ oþer oxen.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 487/2 Teyyn wythe bondys.c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxiii. 81 Tey him to Tailles of hors.1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. iii. f. viv Sampson tayeng the foxes togyther.1664 Earl of Tyrconnel Let. 14 Nov. in Daniell's Catal. Autogr. Lett. (1904) July 37/2 That wee should taye them all bellye to bellye and throwe them in the sea.
2. Past tense.α. Old English *tígede, Middle English *tiȝede, Middle English *tyȝede, Middle English–1500s tyit, Middle English–1700s tyed, 1500s tight, 1500s–1600s ty'd, 1600s– tied. c1400Tyed [see sense 1a]. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aiiv His hors he tyit to ane tre. a1535Tyed [see sense 1b]. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. xii. sig. Kk4 Thereunto a great long chaine he tight.1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. xiv. 461 The bridges.. which they tied to the bankes.1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 141 Forces, that ty'd his Hands.1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. v. 296 Grief..tyed his Tongue.
β. Middle English tayed, Middle English teghit, Middle English teide, Middle English teyde. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 29/91 Huy..teiden ane rop a boute is necke.c1400 Destr. Troy 3523 The kyng..teghit her in yernes.c1400 Three Kings Cologne 26 Byside þat ox Ioseph teyde his asse.1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. iii. 41 Sir Arthur..tayed his hors to the style.
3. Past participle.α. Old English getiged, Old English getigged, Middle English i-tiȝed, Middle English ityȝed, Middle English tichit (Scottish), Middle English ticht (Scottish), Middle English tyȝed, Middle English–1800s tyed, Middle English– tied, 1500s tiede, 1500s–1600s tide, 1500s–1600s tyde, 1600s–1700s ty'd. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 62 An ramm..getiged be ðam hornum.c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 2 & þonne sona finde gyt ane assene ge-tiggede [c1160 Hatton Gosp. ge-teiggede [v.r. geteggede]]. c1275 [see sense 1a]. c1320 [see sense 1a]. ▸ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xi. 2 A colt tyed [a1425 L.V. tied]. c1400Tyȝed [see sense 4a]. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 405 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 107 With tuscheis of trast silk tichit to ye tre.1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 457 Ane Tyger ticht to ane tre.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vi. sig. F2 In sacred bandes of wedlocke tyde. 1609 [see sense 5a]. 1688 [see sense 5a]. 1706 J. Lowthorp in Miscellanea Curiosa (Royal Soc.) II. 198 There was also a Bladder ty'd below each Joint..and when it was fill'd with Water it was ty'd above it. 1715 [see sense 1a]. 1816 [see sense 1a].
β. Middle English ge-tegged, Middle English ge-teigged, Middle English iteid, Middle English i-teied, Middle English i-teiet, Middle English teid, Middle English teied, Middle English teiȝed, Middle English teyde, Middle English teyghte, Middle English yteyd, Middle English–1500s teyed, 1500s tayd, 1500s tayed, 1500s teyd, 1800s teed (dialect). c10002gete[i]gged [see α. forms]. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 217 Þat me ne sholde none man bitechen bute he were teid to menden chirche. c1200Iteied [see sense 5a]. c1230 Hali Meid. 27 Him..þat is..to eni eorðliche þing iteiet.a1250 Owl & Nightingale 776 An hors.. i-teid at mulne dure.a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3232 Teied in þe stabul.a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3226 Þe sturnest stede in hire stabul teiȝed. ▸ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 77 Þe reynes þat þe oxen schulde be teyde by. a1387I-teyed [see sense 1b]. 1390Teid [see sense 5c]. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 518 Eche a man on londe than gos,..And lefft here schip teyghte fast. c1405Yteyd [see sense 1b]. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xvii. 49 Wel teyed with ropys.a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 156 Than am I tonge tayd.1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 98 Browte thorrow Cheppesyde teyd in ropes xxiiijti tayd to-getheres as herrytykes.1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Teed, tied.
The simple verb.
1.
a. transitive. To bind, fasten, make fast (one thing to another, or two or more things together) with a cord, rope, band, or the like, drawn together and knotted; to confine (a person or animal) by fastening to something.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relate to [verb (transitive)] > relate or connect one thing to another
tiec1000
link?a1412
mate1594
tack1683
relate1697
bridge1834
connect1881
to tie up1888
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind with cord, string, or tie
tiec1000
halchc1400
lacec1405
cable?1507
twitch1612
lash1624
wup1808
snub1888
zip-tie1985
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 432 Ualerianus..het tigan [Ypolitus] be ðam fotum to ungetemedra horsa swuran.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 186 Sansunes foxes..weren biþe tailes iteiȝet togedere.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12962 Twælf swine iteied [c1300 Otho itiȝed] to-somne.
c1320 Cast. Love 1130 As fisch..Þat whon þe worm he swoleweþ..He is bi þe hok i-tiȝed [v.r. i-tyȝed] fast.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 2733 Anker thei caste, And tyed here schippis in that porte And ȝede to londe.
1402 T. Hoccleve Let. of Cupid 226 Ful mony of hem wer in my cheyne y-tyed.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 752 [772] Stakes..To teye hem to.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. D8 Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 154 A great dogge tyed in a chaine.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 55 Th' embroider'd Sandals on his Feet were ty'd.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards i. 52 Such bells were also tyed to Hawks.
b. To draw together the parts of (a single thing) with a knotted cord or the like; to fasten (a part of dress, etc.) in this way, esp. with strings already attached to it (as a bonnet, a shoe); also, to draw together (a cord or the like) into a knot, esp. for the purpose of fastening something.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 369 Hire hosen tilled to the hamme, i-teyed wiþ layners al aboute.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 459 Hir hosen weeren of fyn Scarlett reed Ful streyte yteyd.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 68/1 After whiche time the prince neuer tyed his pointes.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 28 Didst not thou fall out..with another for tying his new shoes with olde ribands.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 80 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors They tye their Garments about with a Girdle.
1716 J. Addison Drummer iii. 26 He'll tye a Wigg.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. iv. 104 Tie My girdle for me.
1912 N.E.D. at Tie Mod. You must tie the string tighter, or the parcel will come undone.
c. Surgery. To bind and constrict (an artery or vein) with a ligature, so as to prevent the flow of blood through it.
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1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 38 b/2 The tyed Vayne might chaunce to vntye.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 195 To tie the more superficial arteries.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xi. 123 The effects produced by tying the carotid and vertebral arteries.
d. To make or form by tying (a knot, etc.).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind with cord, string, or tie > make or form by tying
tie1647
1647 A. Cowley Tree in Mistress v Go tye the dismal Knot (why shouldst thou live?).
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. Introd. 6 The garlands you delight to tie.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xiv. 200 He tied sixty knots in a leathern thong.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling x. 299 One of the most difficult things in tying flies.
e. tie neck and heels: see neck n.1 Phrases 8.ride and tie: see ride v. Phrases 2d.
f. intransitive for passive.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (intransitive)] > be tied
pinion1608
tie1842
1842 Amer. Pioneer 1 274 A pair of buckskin leggins,..made to fit the leg and tie in at the ankle with the moccasins.
1924 A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl ii. iii. 114 Straightly falling dress,..tying at the breast with tassels and at the waist with a loosely knotted sash.
2. In figurative phrases. to tie the hands of: to deprive of freedom of action. to tie the knot: to effect a union between two persons or things; esp. to perform the ceremony of marriage. †to tie with St. Mary's knot: to hamstring (obsolete). to tie to the stake, figurative to put into a position from which there is no escape. to tie a person's tongue: to prevent (him) from speaking, to compel to be silent (see also tongue-tied adj.). tied to a woman's apron-strings: see tied to the apron-strings at apron-string n. tie that bull outside or to another ashcan (U.S. slang): I do not believe you; ‘tell me another’. to tie a can to (or on) (slang): to reject or dismiss (a person); to stop (an activity). to tie one on [compare bun n.5] slang (chiefly U.S.): to get drunk.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > force into a difficult situation
to tie to the stake1544
fix1736
to set up1747
corner1824
to drive into a corner1861
bunker1930
to get or have (a person) by the short and curlies1948
to box (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner1955
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking
to stop a person's mouthc1175
stilla1225
to keep ina1420
stifle1496
to knit up1530
to muzzle (up) the mouth1531
choke1533
muzzle?1542
to tie a person's tongue1544
tongue-tiea1555
silence1592
untongue1598
to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605
to bite in1608
gaga1616
to swear downa1616
to laugh down1616
stifle1621
to cry down1623
unworda1627
clamour1646
splint1648
to take down1656
snap1677
stick1708
shut1809
to shut up1814
to cough down1823
to scrape down1855
to howl down1872
extinguish1878
hold1901
shout1924
to pipe down1926
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)]
needeOE
straita1340
pressa1393
afforcea1400
stressa1400
coactc1400
coarctc1400
strainc1400
compulse?a1475
cohert1475
oppress1523
compel1526
forcec1540
to tie to the stake1544
urge1576
adact1615
duressa1626
coerce1659
railroad1889
to twist the tail1895
steamroll1900
steamroller1912
shanghai1919
bulldozer1945
shotguna1961
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > hamstring
hoxen1387
hox1388
houghc1440
to tie with St. Mary's knot1544
hock1570
hough-sinew1577
string-hough1605
ham1618
enervate1638
hockle1671
hamstring1675
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)]
weda1225
marrya1325
spousec1390
to make matrimonyc1400
intermarry1528
contract1530
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1535
to make a match1547
yoke1567
match1569
mate1589
to go to church (with a person)1600
to put one's neck in a noosec1600
paira1616
to join giblets1647
buckle1693
espouse1693
to change (alter) one's condition1712
to tie the knot1718
to marry out1727
to wedlock it1737
solemnize1748
forgather1768
unite1769
connubiate1814
conjugalize1823
connubialize1870
splice1874
to get hitched up1890
to hook up1903
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > join in marriage
wedOE
join1297
spousec1325
bind1330
couplea1340
to put togethera1387
conjoin1447
accouple1548
matea1593
solemnize1592
espouse1599
faggot1607
noose1664
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1700
rivet1700
to tie the knot1718
buckle1724
unite1728
tack1732
wedlock1737
marry1749
splice1751
to turn off1759
to tie up1894
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)]
bindc1200
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
corset1935
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action
bind971
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
to box up1659
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
hog-tie1924
corset1935
the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > expressing disbelief [phrase]
do you mean to say (also to tell me)1763
you don't mean to say (also to tell me)1763
tell that to the marines1806
in a horn1847
you are (or have got to be) joking1907
tie that bull outside or to another ashcan1921
you could have fooled me1926
you wouldn't read about it1950
pull the other one (it's got bells on)1966
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject or cast off a person
refusec1390
wavescha1400
denyc1400
rejectc1450
replya1500
repudiate1534
to fling off1587
reprobate1747
veto1839
to tie a can to (or on)1926
to give (a person) the elbow1938
wipe1941
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss > unceremoniously
to send packingc1450
trussa1500
to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one's ear1577
to set packing1577
pack1589
ship1594
to send away with a fly in one's ear1606
to give a packing penny to1609
to pack off1693
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
to send about one's business1728
trundle1794
to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1816
bundle1823
to give the bucket to1863
shake1872
to give (a person) the finger1874
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (someone or something) the chuck1888
to give (someone) the gate1918
to get the (big) bird1924
to tie a can to (or on)1926
to give (a person) (his or her) running shoes1938
to give (someone) the Lonsdale1958
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)]
aswikec975
linOE
beleavec1175
forletc1175
i-swikec1175
restc1175
stutte?c1225
lina1300
blinc1314
to give overc1325
to do wayc1350
stintc1366
finisha1375
leavea1375
yleavec1380
to leave offa1382
refuse1389
ceasec1410
resigna1413
respite?a1439
relinquish1454
surcease1464
discontinue1474
unfill1486
supersede1499
desist1509
to have ado?1515
stop1525
to lay aside1530
stay1538
quata1614
to lay away1628
sist1635
quita1642
to throw up1645
to lay by1709
to come off1715
unbuckle1736
peter1753
to knock off1767
stash1794
estop1796
stow1806
cheese1811
to chuck itc1879
douse1887
nark1889
to stop off1891
stay1894
sling1902
can1906
to lay off1908
to pack in1934
to pack up1934
to turn in1938
to break down1941
to tie a can to (or on)1942
to jack in1948
to wrap it up1949
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > get drunk
drunkenc1000
to wash one's face in an ale clout1550
to shoe the goose, gosling1566
to catch, hunt the fox1599
to swallow a tavern-token1601
to read Geneva print1608
to whip the cat1622
inebriate1626
to hunt a tavern-fox1635
fox1649
mug1653
to fuddle one's cap or nose1663
to lose one's legs1770
gin1789
stone1858
to beer up1884
slop1899
to get, have, tie a bun on1901
shicker1906
souse1921
lush1926
to cop a reeler1937
to tie one on1951
1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Ciii Tied and bounde with the chaine of our synnes.
1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. M.iiii Hir swelling sobbes, Did tie hir tong from talke.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 11 Euphues being thus tyed to the stake by their importunate intreatie, began as followeth.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 53 I am tide tot'h stake, and I must stand the course. View more context for this quotation
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. v. 375 When God intends a Nation shall be beaten, he ties their hands behind them.
1718 M. Prior Alma i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 331 So to the Priest Their case They tell: He ties the Knot.
?1775 (a1600) Dick o Cow (Percy) xxvii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 465/1 He has ty'd them a' with St Mary knott, All these horse but barely three.
1781 W. Cowper Friendship 62 A fretful temper will divide The closest knot that may be tied.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To tie a knot wi the tongue, at yan cannot louze wi yan's teeth’, i.e. to get married.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking ix. 214 It seems very unjust to tie the hands of the directors in so important a particular.
1889 The County viii One would have thought that very shame would have tied her tongue.
1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers iv. i. 212 ‘Fellers, the war's over!’.. ‘Tie that bull outside,’ came from every side of the ward.
1922 H. Crane Let. 10 Dec. (1965) 108 Life is meagre with me. I am unsatisfied and left always begging for beauty. I am tied to the stake—a little more wastefully burnt every day of my life.
1926 P. G. Wodehouse Heart of Goof viii. 265 What caused the definite rift was Jane's refusal to tie a can to Rodney Spelvin.
1928 C. Sandburg Good Morning, Amer. 16 They got a fat nerve to try to tie a can on you.
1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan ii. 60 Three-Star told Vinc to tie his bull to another ash can.
1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! i. 27 Aw say, you fresh kid, tie that bull outside!
1942 P. G. Wodehouse Money in Bank xix. 192 Tie a can to the funny stuff, see? If I want to laugh, I'll read the comic strip.
1951 Western Folklore 10 82 The Act of Drinking:..to swill one down; to tie one on.
1959 Listener 4 June 971/1 That was what lost Mr. Acheson votes when he was tied to the Senatorial stake.
1962 J. Onslow Bowler-hatted Cowboy xix. 186 You used to tie one on with the boys.
1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin v. 65 I'm warning you to kiss her goodbye and tie a can to her. Never marry anyone who makes conditions.
1982 A. Mather Impetuous Masquerade vii. 107 He had..tied one on, if you know what I mean.
3.
a. To fasten together, connect, join (material things) in any way; spec. in Architecture to connect and make fast by a rod or beam (cf. tie n. 7), or by other means (cf. bond n.1 13a). Also with into, = to tie in to (see sense to tie in 1 at Phrasal verbs below).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > fasten [verb (intransitive)]
tie1585
clench1850
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > together
bind1535
tie1585
ingrapple1599
fibulate1656
tag1681
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > connect [verb (transitive)] > link together > establish a link with
to link up with1899
tiea1912
to hook up1925
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xviii. 51 [A] smal habitation,..made of..glasse, ioyned & tyed together with roddes of Tin.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 67 Peloponnesus..is tied to the continent by an Istmus.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xv. 161 Every arch or gable not tied at its base by beams or bars, exercises a lateral pressure upon the walls which sustain it.
a1912 [see sense 3e]. 1969 D. Acheson Present at Creation xliv. 402 The white telephone tied into the White House switchboard was used sparingly by considerate associates.
1974 Sci. Amer. Oct. 113/1 We began work at the complex by establishing over the target area a submerged grid of 10-meter squares that was tied into the Greek ordnance survey grid ashore.
b. To check or hinder the free movement or working of: see quots.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > render motionless > by hampering or entangling
cumber1487
tangle1511
poister1523
entangle1533
clog1583
tie1598
flag1622
stick1635
impester1653
felter1768
hamper1804
mire1889
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 10/1 Spasmus..with shakinge and quiveringe, with the tonge tiede, and with irremoveable eyes.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 11 The..Axes, and Wedges..(not seldome) are so tied by the teeth, as a good workman shall hardly be able to hew three foote, in the space of so many weekes.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 192 When sawing, the wood operated on often ‘ties’ the saw, as it is called, that is, pinches it—which makes it hard to work.
18.. Dogs Great Brit. & Amer. 45 There is a want of liberty in the play of the whole shoulder, because the elbow rubs against the ribs... This is called being tied at the elbow.
c. Music. To connect (notes) by a tie or ligature: see tie n. 6b, ligature n. 4.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > notate [verb (transitive)] > connect by tie
tie1597
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 9 Annot. Ligatures were deuised for the Ditties sake, so that how manye notes serued for one syllable, so many notes were tied together.
1658 J. Playford Breif Introd. Skill Musick (new ed.) 31 Foure, or more Quavers and Semiquavers are Tyed together by a long Stroke on the Top of their Tails.
1658 J. Playford Breif Introd. Skill Musick (new ed.) 40 This Tye or Hold when it is put over the head of two Notes, both upon one Line, or one space, it is, that They must be Sung or Play'd in one Sound. If the Tyes or Holds be put over Passing Notes..They shew that so many Notes are Sung to one syllable of a word. If such Ties be in Lessons for the Viol,..they shew that so many as are so tyed are to be stroke with once Drawing the Bow.
d. U.S. To furnish (a railway line) with ‘ties’ or sleepers (cf. tie n. 7b).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > furnish with railway [verb (transitive)] > furnish with sleepers
tie1883
1883 W. Chester, Pa. Local News II. No. 234. 1 Forty miles of road..had to be..graded, tied, rails laid.
e. To fasten or fix otherwise (e.g. †with nails).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)]
fastenOE
truss?c1225
clitch?a1300
fasta1300
cadgea1400
lacec1425
claspa1450
tie?a1513
tether1563
spar1591
befast1674
span1781
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 36 Syne tyit him on with greit irne takkis, And at him all nakit on the tre, Thay raissit on loft.
a1912 Mod. The brick facing of the wall is tied into the concrete backing by headers at frequent intervals.
f. intransitive and transitive. Of a dog or bitch: to remain linked (with) for a period during copulation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > stay linked in copulation
tie1910
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (transitive)] > copulate with or impregnate
lime1555
ward1781
tie1934
1910 J. S. Turner Kennel Encycl. III. 919 Occasionally a dog does not tie in the normal fashion... A dog that regularly ties is preferable.
1934 F. W. Cousens Dogs & their Managem. v. 83 When the stud dog is unable to ‘tie’ a bitch, he is unable to remain sufficiently long in position to impregnate the bitch properly.
1952 C. L. B. Hubbard Pembrokeshire Corgi Handbk. v. 60 Not all breeds tie.
1968 J. F. Gordon Beagle Guide x. 149 Once the pair have tied, they can be steadied, and..left to complete their task.
4.
a. figurative. To join closely or firmly; to connect, attach, unite, knit, bind by other than material ties; esp. to unite in marriage (now dialect).
ΚΠ
c1000 [see α. forms].
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 183 Hie [the soul]..to þe licame..seið..Aweilewei þu fule hold þat ich auere was to þe iteied.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 702 When two true togeder had tyȝed hem seluen.
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. vii. 110 Richarde..exceedingly tyed unto him the heartes of the noblemen.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. B6v Eloquution, is annexed vnto the stile, which..is also tyed to the argument.
a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. ii. 21 The greatest felicity of the World, was tyed to the greatest Mishap.
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor (1841) II. i. i. 16 How could you think of tying yourself to such a family?
1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone vii. 128 At length, thus faintly, faintly tied To earth, she was set free, and died.
1890 Spectator 24 May 714/1 If Washington could tie gold and silver together in the ratio of sixteen, so could the rest of the world.
1899 J. Lumsden Edinb. Poems & Songs 287 Ma man was kill'd..Before that we'd been foure days tied.
b. intransitive for reflexive. To attach oneself (to). Also, to tie to: to fix one's confidence in, trust to, hold on to for support. U.S. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > trust [verb (intransitive)] > rely on
wrethea1225
treousec1275
resta1382
to stand upon ——a1393
hang1393
lengc1440
arrest1523
reckon1547
ground1551
stay1560
depend1563
repose1567
rely1574
count1642
to make stay upon1682
allot1816
tie1867
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > be or become connected [verb (intransitive)] > be or become linked
accede?a1475
yoke?a1513
tie1867
to link up1897
1867 Rep. Iowa Agric. Soc. (1868) 212 [Concord grapes] will not do for the masses to tie to, in the West.
1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand x. 43 He won't du tu tie ter.
1884 ‘Judge Wiglittle’ 10 Years Police Judge xxiii. 200 The propensities of the thief strikingly tie somehow to the training begotten of ardent spirit.
1892 W. W. Fenn Bible in Theol. 17 Those who, as they say, ‘want something to tie to’.
5. † c. To bring into bondage; to enthrall. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To bind, oblige, restrain, constrain to (also from) some course of action, etc.; to limit, confine, restrict. to be tied to (or for) time: to be bound or limited to a certain time for doing something. (See also phrases in sense 2.)
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)] > to perform or adhere to
hold971
tiec1200
exact1564
enforce1647
confine1651
straiten1652
to tie down1692
to nail down1859
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 181 Ilch man of his wise noteð his swinhc swilch se he is to iteied. Clerc on his wise. Cniht on his wise... And ilches craftes þeau swo he beð to iteied.
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1474 God for-beede þou þe haddist tyed Þer-to, but if þin herte myght han plyed For to obserue it wel.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclii If it were nat in mannes owne lyberte of fre wyl to do good or bad, but to the one teyed by bonde of goddes preordynaunce.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus vi. Proëme, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 360 I will..tye my selfe..vnto the trueth of the history.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles ix. 8 She hath so strictly Tyed her to her Chamber. View more context for this quotation
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 184/1 The White Friers..were tyed to Fasting, Silence, and Canonical hours.
1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 25 Apr. 2/2 I must tie this Gentleman close to the Argument.
1860 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) III. 38 Unfortunately I am tied to time. I must be back in London.
1901 Daily Tel. 22 Mar. 9/5 The British being to a certain extent tied in South Africa.
b. To bind, oblige; usually in passive to be bound or obliged (to do something). Now only dialect.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > bind (a person) morally or legally [verb (transitive)]
obligea1325
conclude1393
astrainc1475
astringe1523
obstringe1528
obligate1533
bind1549
debt-bind1563
astrictc1600
tie1608
engage1642
to put (a person) on his or her honour1656
pin1710
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 498 The borrower..is tied to make it good.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 210 I am tyed to be obedient, For so your father charg'd me at our parting. View more context for this quotation
1625 C. Burges New Discouery Personal Tithes 66 It was their purpose to tie his conscience the more to doe iustly herein.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 108 Nor were they ty'd to carry the Dead to their respective Parishes.
1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 134 Why should the grower tie himself to plant an equal number of different sorts?
1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 259 We do not reckon obliged in the sense of forced as part of our vocabulary; instead we make use of tied.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > be slave of [verb (transitive)] > enslave
thrallc1275
thrall?a1366
tie1390
enthral1447
thrillc1485
mancipate1533
thirl1535
esclavish1583
bethrall1596
slave1602
embondage1607
bondage1611
enfetter1611
servilize1619
emancipate1629
beslave1634
enslave1656
bond1835
asservilize1877
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 129 It is impropreliche seid, For good hath him and halt him teid, That he..is unto his good a thral.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 23307 Þei euer tyed were In þis lif for synnes sere.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 17513 I teye my sylff..And bynde me to my rychesse.
1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia i. 68 What helps it that thou ty'dst The former World to thee in vassalage?
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. ii. 36 One that by suggestion Ty'de all the Kingdome. View more context for this quotation
d. To bind by favour or service rendered: usually in passive: = oblige v. 9, 10.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > gratitude > thank [verb (transitive)] > make indebted by kindness
bedebta1522
tie1576
indebt1603
endear1604
obligate1697
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 123 I am so streigtly tyed to his courtesie.
1595 Blanchardine & Eglantine Ded. sig. A ij Whose deserts haue tyed me during life the vassaile of..their commaunds.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 23 He is one of the Noblest note, to whose kindnesses I am most infinitely tied . View more context for this quotation
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. ii. 137 We are also tied in duty to our comrades that were with us in danger.
e. To restrict (a dealer or firm) to a particular source for articles sold; only in past participle, usually applied to a public house so restricted as to liquor. Hence transferred as in quot. 1899. See also tied adj.1 2b.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > [verb (transitive)] > impede, restrict, or suspend trade
embar1577
spoil1618
embargo1755
tie1817
1817 [see to tie down 2 at Phrasal verbs].
1853 Rep. Sel. Comm. Public Houses, Min. Evid. 118 I am the owner of a free house, tied to nobody.
1884 Lincoln, etc. Mercury 22 Feb. The Masons' Arms Hotel... Tied for beer only.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 9 Apr. 2/3 The system of ‘tied’ trade..is not confined to the drink trade... A retail draper was ‘tied’ to a wholesale house—i.e...he was under contract to buy all his goods from the wholesale draper in question.
1899 Daily News 7 Dec. 4/1 The farmers dictate the terms of tenancy. The cottages are ‘tied’.
f. To impose conditions on (foreign aid), esp. by restricting its use to purchases from the source country. Cf. tied adj.1 2c.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > support by payment [verb (transitive)] > pay subsidy to (a country) > impose conditions on foreign aid
tie1965
1965 McGraw-Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 515 A considerable part of U.S. foreign aid has been tied.
1965 New Statesman 18 June 945/3 This strain [on the balance of payments] can be reduced by ‘tying’ aid—insisting that it be spent on British exports.
1976 New Internationalist Jan. 7/2 Virtually all aid from the USSR is tied to the purchase of Russian goods or expertise.
1980 North–South (Rep. Independent Comm. Internat. Devel. Issues) xii. 198 When they tie aid to their own sources the donor countries greatly limit choices and discourage local initiatives.
6. (figurative from 1b or 1d.) To make sure, confirm, ratify; to ‘knit’, ‘cement’. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > ratification or confirmation > confirm or ratify [verb (transitive)]
confirm1297
ratify1357
endoss1381
approve1413
roborate?a1475
establish1533
justify1596
firm1599
rate?1611
affeera1616
tie1623
convalidate1656
sanction1778
accredit1826
countersign1840
endorse1847
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > assure, make certain [verb (transitive)] > establish as fact, ascertain
trowa901
lookc1175
take1469
ascertaina1513
certain1523
favoura1530
establish1533
try1542
try1582
tie1623
secure1630
to make sure1644
true1647
determine1650
determinate1666
authenticate1753
constatea1773
verify1801
validate1957
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 251 That Seale..the King..gaue me..and..Ti'de it by Letters Patents. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 587 When thus in publick view the Peace was ty'd, With solemn Vows.
7. † c. In the House of Commons: = pair v.2 4.
a. intransitive. To be equal (with) in a contest, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > rival or vie with
strive?c1225
countervailc1525
to hold handc1600
compete1620
to keep upa1633
competition1650
tie1680
to fall over one another1888
society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > be equal with
tie1680
stay1887
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [verb (transitive)] > vote > pair with member to vote
tie1680
pair1900
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)] > be equal in a contest
tie1870
draw1880
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xv. 93 If each win a trick and the third tyed, neither win, because it is trick and tye.
1870 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Oct. 600 The cricketers tied when they were so equally matched that neither won.
1882 Standard 31 Aug. 6/4 Captain Burridge..scored 117, and tied with Mr. Meyler.
1902 Ld. Rosebery in Daily Chron. 13 Oct. 7/1 We have not received intellectual faculties equal to Mr. Gladstone's, and we cannot hope to tie with him in their exercise.
b. passive in same sense.
ΚΠ
1868 U.S. Newspaper The two political parties in Councils were tied on joint ballot.
ΚΠ
1829 O'Connell in Corr. May (1888) I. 188 To tie with a Government member.
d. transitive. To be equal with (a competitor); to make the same score as. Now chiefly North American.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > equal, match, or rival
matchc1400
to hold, rarely have, tack with (to)1412
equalize15..
mate1509
touch1530
to hold (a person, etc.) tack (to tack)1555
equal1590
egall1591
countermatch1600
to weigh with (also even with)1600
emulate1602
side1605
compeer1608
pair1619
mount1628
amate1642
to hold weight witha1643
to be (also prove oneself) a match for1712
peel1726
to hold the sticks toa1817
to bear or stand comparison with1845
see1861
tie1888
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete with [verb (transitive)] > be equal with (a competitor)
tie1888
society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > be equal with
hold1883
tie1888
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) My dog tied yours, so they must run again.
1966 N.Y. Times (Internat. ed.) 22 Apr. 12/5 Real Madrid tied Internazionale of Milan, 1–1, last night.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 39 If Canada ties Russians, Swedes beat Czechs—Russia wins gold on goal spread, Canada takes silver.
1977 Arab Times 13 Dec. 9/1 The American Embassy is currently in second place and needs a victory to tie Dresser and force a play-off for the League Championship.
e. North American. To match or equal (an existing record or score); colloquial phrases can you tie that?, tie that!, expressions of surprise or amazement. Cf. beat v.1 10h.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]
whatOE
well, wellOE
avoyc1300
ouc1300
ay1340
lorda1393
ahaa1400
hillaa1400
whannowc1450
wow1513
why?1520
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
what the (also a) goodyear1570
precious coals1576
Lord have mercy (on us)1581
good heavens1588
whau1589
coads1590
ay me!1591
my stars!a1593
Gods me1595
law1598
Godso1600
to go out1600
coads-nigs1608
for mercy!a1616
good stars!1615
mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616
gramercy1617
goodness1623
what next?1662
mon Dieu1665
heugh1668
criminy1681
Lawd1696
the dickens1697
(God, etc.) bless my heart1704
alackaday1705
(for) mercy's sake!1707
my1707
deuce1710
gracious1712
goodly and gracious1713
my word1722
my stars and garters!1758
lawka1774
losha1779
Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784
great guns!1795
mein Gott1795
Dear me!1805
fancy1813
well, I'm sure!1815
massy1817
Dear, dear!1818
to get off1818
laws1824
Mamma mia1824
by crikey1826
wisha1826
alleleu1829
crackey1830
Madonna mia1830
indeed1834
to go on1835
snakes1839
Jerusalem1840
sapristi1840
oh my days1841
tear and ages1841
what (why, etc.) in time?1844
sakes alive!1846
gee willikers1847
to get away1847
well, to be sure!1847
gee1851
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
doggone1857
lawsy1868
my wig(s)!1871
gee whiz1872
crimes1874
yoicks1881
Christmas1882
hully gee1895
'ullo1895
my hat!1899
good (also great) grief!1900
strike me pink!1902
oo-er1909
what do you know?1909
cripes1910
coo1911
zowiec1913
can you tie that?1918
hot diggety1924
yeow1924
ziggety1924
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
hullo1931
tiens1932
whammo1932
po po po1936
how about that?1939
hallo1942
brother1945
tie that!1948
surprise1953
wowee1963
yikes1971
never1974
to sod off1976
whee1978
mercy1986
yipes1989
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > equal, match, or rival > equal an existing score
tie1946
1918 Collier's 11 May 46/3 The French won't even admit he's dead yet—they call this joint the Invalides, which is only concedin' that he's sick! Can you tie that?
1930 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 28 June 162 ‘Can you beat that?’ he muttered. ‘Can you even tie it?’
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August viii. 172 Well, say. Can you tie that.
1946 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 30 Mar. 46/2 Mr. Carter got hold of Billy Rose and offered him $1000 a day for 100 days if he would come to Fort Worth and put on a show that not only couldn't be beat but couldn't be tied.
1948 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite vi. 83 Tie that for a disaster, Uncle Fred.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Jan. 21/3 Willie Turner, a young sprinter who has yet to reach his peak, tied a world indoor standard Saturday.
1974 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 3 Mar. 6- d/1 Cincinnati tied a school record by hitting 16 of 17 free throws.
1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. c2/1 Connors, a 25-year-old lefthander from Belleville, Ill., quickly served a love game to tie the score.
8. Hunting. intransitive. Of a hound: To linger upon the scent instead of following it swiftly; to loiter, lag.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > loiter on scent
plod1575
tie1781
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xv. 188 They learn to tye upon the scent; an unpardonable fault in a fox-hound.
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xv. 190 If they [sc. the hounds] tie upon the scent, and come hunting after, hang them up immediately..: there is no getting such conceited devils on.
1826 Sporting Mag. 17 233 Like unto the tying beagle which dwells upon the stale scent.
9. intransitive. tie into: to ‘buckle to’. U.S. colloquial. Also, to get to work vigorously on; to tuck into (food). U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > resolutely or energetically
to go to it1490
busklea1535
settle1576
to lay on1587
to put in (also get into) one's gearsa1658
to put (occasionally lay, set) one's shoulder to the wheel1678
yark1721
to get going1822
to pitch in1835
to roll up one's sleeves1838
square1849
to clap on1850
to wire in (also away)1864
to dig in1884
hunker1903
tie into1904
to get cracking1937
to get stuck in1938
to get weaving1942
to get it on1954
1904 S. E. White Forest xii. 159 The day following we tied into it again.
1912 R. A. Wason Friar Tuck xiv. 128 They girded up their loins, an' tied into him a little harder.
1948 ‘J. Evans’ Halo for Satan ix. 130 She put her head back and tied into her drink with the easy grace of a practiced drinker.
1965 M. Bradbury Stepping Westward v. 238 I'm going to take a peanut-butter sandwich..but I want to see these important men tie into something really good.
Phrasal verbs
With adverbs. to tie down to tie in to tie off to tie up
1. literal. To fasten down or confine by tying: see sense 1 and down adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)]
bind971
to bind hand and footOE
i-bindec1000
umgivea1300
warrok1362
hampera1375
bolt1377
shacklec1440
astrainc1475
estrain1483
to put in irons1533
to tie up1570
manacle1582
beshackle1599
to tie (also lay) neck and heels1618
fillet1633
kilta1689
to tie down1699
oblige1718
hog-tie1886
zip-tie1985
1699 S. Garth Dispensary i. 11 More He had spoke but sudden Vapours rise, And with their silken Cords tye down his Eyes.
1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 37 Bards, like Proteus long in vain ty'd down, Escape in Monsters, and amaze the town.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 196 Strain it off, and keep it tied down with bladder.
1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 52 The dogs were accustomed to be tied down separately every night.
2. figurative. To confine stringently (to some thing or action): cf. sense 5, and down adv. 17.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)] > to perform or adhere to
hold971
tiec1200
exact1564
enforce1647
confine1651
straiten1652
to tie down1692
to nail down1859
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §142 Being forced and tied down to their Books in an Age at enmity with all such restraint.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 96 We did not tye our selves down when to march, and when to halt.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Rochester For the maintenance of its bridge, certain lands are tyed down by Pt.
1817 1st Rep. Committee Police Metrop. 11 The..practice..for brewers to tie their tenants down to the purchase of specific articles from individuals named by them.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 87 O you dull fellows, Tied down to facts, you lose the half of life.
1. transitive. To connect or join to an existing structure or network.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > connect [verb (transitive)] > link together > link (one thing) with or to another > to an existing structure
to tie in1793
1793 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 340 Firm purchases.., for the purpose of tying in the front wall.
1914 Dial. Notes 4 164 Tie in, in surveying, to join or connect up. ‘We'll run over to the monument and tie in this survey.’
1943 J. S. Huxley TVA xi. 95 The framing to the exit..neatly ties in the air exhaust trough at the bottom of the walls.
1975 North Sea Background Notes (Brit. Petroleum Co.) 30 It is not impossible that a branch line from another nearby oilfield may be tied in to the Forties line in the future.
1978 Lancs. Life July 37/3 Instead of being tied-in to the building next-door this 19th century addition was simply slapped-up alongside it.
2. intransitive. To accord or be consonant (with); to be connected or associated (with).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relate or connect [verb (intransitive)]
belong1340
pertaina1382
pretend1481
appertaina1500
link?1544
touch?1611
relate1646
rapport1649
connect1709
to tie in1938
to tie up1959
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)]
conspirec1384
accorda1393
to stand with ——c1449
to sit with ——a1500
correspond1545
resound1575
square1583
quader1588
to comport with1591
sympathize1594
beset1597
range1600
even1602
consort1607
to run with ——1614
countenancea1616
hita1616
sympathy1615
filea1625
quadrate?1630
consist1638
commensurate1643
commensure1654
to strike in1704
jig1838
harmonize1852
chime in with1861
equate1934
to tie in1938
to tune in1938
to tie up1958
1938 S. Chase Tyranny of Words viii. 91 This ties in with Korzybski's central idea of knowledge as structural.
1954 ‘A. Garve’ Riddle of Samson x. 97 There's another thing that ties in rather neatly, too.
1959 H. Nielsen Fifth Caller xiv. 216 A stranger? That didn't tie in with the words Dr. Whitehall was quoted as having used in greeting.
1967 Sci. Amer. Sept. 276 The problem ties in with the discussion of Pascal's triangle.
1972 D. Lodge 20th Cent. Lit. Crit. 174 Jung's theory of the Collective Unconscious tied in neatly with the anthropological study of primitive myth and ritual, initiated..by Sir James Frazer in The Golden Bough.
3. transitive. To associate or connect (with).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relate to [verb (transitive)]
haveeOE
toucha1325
to have respect to (formerly also unto)a1398
connex?1541
report1548
bear1556
respect1614
to stand to ——1634
owe1644
connect1751
to tie in1958
1958 ‘A. Bridge’ Portuguese Escape ix. 146 How can they have tied the Monsignor in with the Duke's house?
1959 Listener 26 Feb. 364/1 Nowadays, more emphasis is placed on teaching foreign languages phonetically and on trying to tie lessons in with exchange visits of pupils abroad.
1972 ‘T. Coe’ Don't lie to Me (1974) xi. 102 The detectives on the case think the two things are tied in. The killing and the acid.
1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. iv. 140 Pidgin has been tied in historically with a lot of regrettable racial and economic policies.
1982 R. Leigh Girl with Bright Head xix. 131 ‘Just tell me what Mrs Storm wanted with you.’ ‘Not unless you can tie her in with the murder.’
1. transitive. To close (a tubular vessel) by tying something round it. Also transferred.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > stopping haemorrhage > stop haemorrhage [verb (transitive)] > close vein or artery > by ligature
to take up1566
religate1598
ligate1599
ligature1716
to tie off1903
1903 J. J. McGrath Surg. Anat. & Operative Surg. i. 13 In resecting portions of the alimentary canal the mesentery or omentum that carries the blood-supply to the parts must be tied off.
1973 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird ii. 27 You must have Digham tied off... I won't have you become preggy.
2. transitive. To secure or make fast (a rope or line); also figurative. Also absol.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind with cord, string, or tie > make fast by tying
wup1871
to tie off1928
1928 Amer. Speech 4 69 [Stage-hand language.] The lines pass..down to a fly-floor,..where they are tied-off, or belayed.
1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage vii. 88 Stage-hands are shouting strangely cryptic phrases to people overhead... ‘Up on yer long—dead it—tie off at that—mark yer new set.’
1952 R. P. Bissell Monongahela xix. 217 While the deckhand is tying off you jump down out of the brain box and knock the face wires loose.
1973 J. Thomson Death Cap x. 143 I like all the ends tied off and Finis written on the file.
1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World xi. 193 I..asked him to tie-off the bottom end of Joe's rope.
1. transitive. To fasten (a thing) with a cord or band tied round it, so as to prevent its moving or falling loose, or to secure it from being lost or injured; to bind up, wrap up. Also intransitive for passive.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind with cord, string, or tie > tie up
to tie up1530
uptie1590
restrict1824
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (intransitive)] > be tied > be tied up
to tie up1865
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 758/1 I tye up my heare, as a woman dothe, je me atourne.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xii. 38 Or Tie my pleasure vp in silken Bagges. View more context for this quotation
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 70 His Bob-Wig ty'd up behind like a Horse-tail.
1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) ii. 19 He tore my arm one day,..father got an apothecary to tie it up.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxii. 204 They had tied up the luggage.
1865 ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland xi. 172 A large canvass bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings.
2. To tie (a person or animal) to some fixed object or in some confined space, so as to prevent from escaping; to fasten up.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)]
bind971
to bind hand and footOE
i-bindec1000
umgivea1300
warrok1362
hampera1375
bolt1377
shacklec1440
astrainc1475
estrain1483
to put in irons1533
to tie up1570
manacle1582
beshackle1599
to tie (also lay) neck and heels1618
fillet1633
kilta1689
to tie down1699
oblige1718
hog-tie1886
zip-tie1985
1570 [see 3].
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue Ep. Ded. sig. *iij The bloudy bandoges of the Romish Sinagogue be tyed vp.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. i. 22 My Horse is tyed vp safe. View more context for this quotation
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 53 A Malefactor..is tyed up.
1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxiii. 285 He had stolen the horse, and tied it up in the mountains.
3. figurative. To bind, restrain, or confine strictly; to restrict closely; to hinder from acting freely; to oblige to act in a particular way. (Cf. 5.) Also to tie up one's hands, one's tongue: cf. phrases in sense 2. Also (chiefly passive; originally U.S.) to hold up; to keep busy or occupied.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)]
bindc1200
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
corset1935
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by entangling or binding
shrenchc897
beswapec980
taglea1340
tanglea1340
gyve1377
encumber138.
engleimc1400
wrapc1412
involvec1440
fetter1526
mesh1532
crawl1548
felter1567
to tie up1570
in trick1572
ensnarl1593
entrammel1598
engage1603
casta1605
imbrier1605
weave1620
immaze1631
trammel1727
enchain1751
entangle1790
enmesh1822
in mesh1875
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action
bind971
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
to box up1659
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
hog-tie1924
corset1935
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)]
busyeOE
busyOE
occupya1325
exercisec1384
employ1477
embusy1485
to hold (also keep) in play1548
exerce1584
engage1648
to tie up1887
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 2658 Sith he did make vp-tyed Chirchus and abbeys wyde, For hym and his to praye.]
1570 E. Grindal Dial. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (rev. ed.) II. 1559/2 He hath deserued more gentles at your hande, then to be tied vp so short.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 59 Death that hath tane her hēce..Ties vp my tongue and will not let me speake. View more context for this quotation
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 226 I would have you not to tie up your hands from consideration of either.
1768 C. Churchill Let. 9 Apr. in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) II. 289 Being tied up by my father's will from assisting my younger children during my life.
1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 173 It is not tied up in a strait-jacket like a modern chant.
1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail vii. 140 I ran into a snow-storm that tied us up until we were six days making the run.
1907 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 10 Oct. 16 Traffic west of Springfield was tied up until about midnight.
1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xiv. 295 I meant to come round yesterday evening, but I got tied up with people.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iii. 53 He was tied up in a story conference.
1959 W. D. Pereira North Flight ii. 29 Sir Arthur's terribly tied up at the moment and regrets he cannot speak to you.
1973 New Yorker 24 Feb. 36/1 The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a small buoy indeed but one that, whenever we stop to read it, ties us up for several hours.
1978 Nature 21 Sept. p. xii/2 The computer or scope is tied up only a fraction of a second while the exposure is made.
1980 D. Lodge How Far can you Go? iv. 125 She sent her apologies, but she's tied up organizing some bazaar.
4. To moor (a ship or boat); also absol., or (usually) intransitive for passive said of the vessel.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)]
fastenc1540
moor1627
breast1842
to tie up1853
berth1867
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > moor
moor1378
breast1838
headfast1889
to tie up1893
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xvi. 122 The ice was closing in every direction; and our master..had no alternative but to tie up and await events.
1876 Fur, Fin & Feather Sept. 107 They will find the Crossmon House a pleasant place to ‘tie up to’.
1886 E. Arnold India Revisited iii. 33 At night every steamer ‘ties up’.
1893 E. Custer Tenting on Plains 34 The great cable was used to tie us up to the bank.
5. figurative (from a): To invest or place (money or property) in such a way as to prevent it from being spent or alienated.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > invest > in specific way
to lock up1692
to tie up1822
to plough back1912
to put back1912
1822 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 21 June (1884) I He has tied up his real estates as tight as he could.
1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond xiii She is close of her money;..she has tied up every shilling of it, and only allows me half-a-crown a-week for pocket-money.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxiii. 34 To pass a prospective statute tying up in strict entail the little which still remained of the Crown property.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. v. 111 Her money..had been tied up all tight for her benefit.
6. slang. To give up, desist from, quit (a practice or course of action); also absol.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > quit or give up
to give offa1616
quita1642
to tie up1760
that'll be the day1916
to turn in1918
to go through1933
to walk away1950
1760 S. Foote Minor i. 32 I have a great mind to tie up, and ruin the rascals.
1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. i. 122/2 To tie up = to forswear: e.g., to tie up prigging = to lead an honest life.
7. slang. To vanquish or disable in a contest; to finish; to ‘knock out’.
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1818 [implied in: Sporting Mag. 2 211 He knobbed his adversary well, and floored him by a smart tye-up at the fourth buttonhole. (at tie-up n. 5b)].
1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. i. 122/2 To tie up..= to knock out (pugilists'); tied-up = (1) finished, settled.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 31 July 16/1 Inclined to lay odds that he and Barnes or Rhodes would have ‘tied up’ the Australian batsmen.
8. To join in marriage: cf. 4 (also to tie the knot at sense 2). colloquial or slang.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > join in marriage
wedOE
join1297
spousec1325
bind1330
couplea1340
to put togethera1387
conjoin1447
accouple1548
matea1593
solemnize1592
espouse1599
faggot1607
noose1664
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1700
rivet1700
to tie the knot1718
buckle1724
unite1728
tack1732
wedlock1737
marry1749
splice1751
to turn off1759
to tie up1894
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 158 A comelier couple parson has seldom..tied up.
9. to tie (a person) up in(to) knots (or a knot): see knot n.1 10a.
10. intransitive. To associate or unite oneself or one's interests with (or to). Also transitive, to associate (one thing) with another. Originally U.S. Cf. tie-up n. 7b.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relate to [verb (transitive)] > relate or connect one thing to another
tiec1000
link?a1412
mate1594
tack1683
relate1697
bridge1834
connect1881
to tie up1888
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate with for common purpose [verb (transitive)]
alliance1533
to combine a league1562
enleague1596
to strike ina1637
factiona1652
adoptate1662
to strike up1714
enjoin1734
to go in1851
train1866
to tie up1888
affiliate1949
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)]
conspirec1384
accorda1393
to stand with ——c1449
to sit with ——a1500
correspond1545
resound1575
square1583
quader1588
to comport with1591
sympathize1594
beset1597
range1600
even1602
consort1607
to run with ——1614
countenancea1616
hita1616
sympathy1615
filea1625
quadrate?1630
consist1638
commensurate1643
commensure1654
to strike in1704
jig1838
harmonize1852
chime in with1861
equate1934
to tie in1938
to tune in1938
to tie up1958
1888 Texas Siftings 3 Mar. 3/1 He's all O.K. There is no subterfuge about him... He is a man who will do to tie up to.
1903 N.Y. Evening Post 5 Dec. 1 It becomes his first interest to make business for that yard. He can best do this by tying up with the other navy yard representatives on the committee.
1904 Indianapolis News 21 June 6 The assurance that Captain New is to have a good post may be the reason that so many fellows want to tie up to him.
1925 Round Table June 593 It is clearly to South Africa's interest to tie up definitely either with sterling..or with gold.
1928 Daily Express 13 June 3/4 Registered readers..have..‘tied up’ with the newspaper which..offers the best..insurance benefits.
1943 J. S. Huxley TVA i. 9 Flood-control could be readily tied up..with the profitable generation of electric power.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Sept. 526/2 [He] does not rest solely on his spade but takes every opportunity of tying up archaeological discoveries with references obtainable from written authorities.
11. To bring to a satisfactory conclusion.
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the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] > bring to an end or conclusion > satisfactorily
to sew up1904
to tie up1954
1954 ‘R. Crompton’ William & Moon Rocket i. 25 Taking that lorry's number and giving a description of where the shed was on the Minster road. Tied things up a treat, that did.
1959 Listener 12 Feb. 305/1 When the play ends..one is left intentionally with the feeling that not everything has been tied up.
1973 A. Broinowski Take One Ambassador vii. 90 The trade mark of the few in the know. That ties it all up.
1980 S. Brett Dead Side of Mike xiii. 147 It all fits in... It just ties up the whole package.
12. intransitive. = sense to tie in 2 at Phrasal verbs above.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relate or connect [verb (intransitive)]
belong1340
pertaina1382
pretend1481
appertaina1500
link?1544
touch?1611
relate1646
rapport1649
connect1709
to tie in1938
to tie up1959
1959 M. Gilbert Blood & Judgement xiii. 138 ‘That would make him..in his late fifties now.’ ‘Which ties up all right with our man.’
1968 Listener 20 June 799/2 This may well tie up with the fact that he was an intensely religious person who believed in people going to hell and being saved.
1974 J. Aiken Midnight is Place iv. 130 ‘He had had two men sent to jail for protesting.’ ‘Yes, that seems to tie oop with what we had heard.’
Draft additions 1993
Philately. To associate (a stamp) with the cover to which it is affixed by printing the cancellation partly on the stamp and partly on the cover. Frequently const. to and in passive.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [verb (transitive)] > stamp with postmark > print stamp partly on stamp and cover
tie1950
1950 L. N. Williams & M. Williams Collecting Postage Stamps 134 A stamp is said to be tied to piece or cover when a single impression of the cancellation appears partly on the stamp and partly on the piece or cover.
1972 A. Blair World of Stamps 100 The Maltese Cross..cancellation..can still be bought at a low price ‘tying’ an imperforate Penny Red of 1841 to the cover.
1975 Catal. Hi-Hat Auction (Stamp-Ade Co., Cleveland, Ohio) 22 Mar. 1 Refolded double page letter: Philadelphia to Boston: franked with two 5¢ 1847's: tied with 4 blue grid cancels.
1987 Stamps Feb. 23/3 Entire letter bearing 1873–80 4d sage green, plate 15, in a horizontal strip of 3, tied by ‘C35’ to London at £1,045.
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